Longitudinal investigation of the relation between attention, neural functioning and SES in infancy (Supplement)

婴儿期注意力、神经功能和SES之间关系的纵向调查（补充）

• 批准号: 10404746
• 负责人: Jessica L Burris
• 金额: $ 6.04万
• 依托单位: RUTGERS THE STATE UNIV OF NJ NEWARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10404746
• 关键词: 4 year old; Affect; Area; Attention; Automobile Driving; Behavior; Biological Factors; Birth; Brain; Child; Child Development; Child Rearing; Chronic stress; Cognitive; Data; Detection; Development; Economic Factors; Educational process of instructing; Electroencephalography; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Evaluation; Exhibits; Exposure to; Face; Family; Foundations; Hair; Health; High Frequency Oscillation; Home; Home environment; Hydrocortisone; Impairment; Individual; Infant; Institution; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Life; Link; Measures; Mediating; Methodology; Methods; Mothers; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Neurophysiology - biologic function; Neurosciences; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Parents; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Physiological; Physiology; Poverty; Protocols documentation; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Research Project Grants; Resource Allocation; Resources; Rest; Sampling; Social Development; Socioeconomic Status; Stimulus; Stress; System; Techniques; Testing; Time; Training; Violence; Visit; Work; aged; attentional control; base; behavioral outcome; cognitive development; early childhood; emotional stimulus; executive function; frontal lobe; improved; infancy; longitudinal analysis; low socioeconomic status; neural patterning; neurodevelopment; novel; recruit; relating to nervous system; resilience; response; skills; social; socioeconomic disadvantage; stress reactivity; training opportunity; visual tracking

Project Summary/Abstract Developing in a low SES environment can have negative impacts on children’s attentional and neural development. Only a small number of studies have investigated the developmental foundation of these problems, with some evidence showing no neural differences at birth based on SES, but with marked differences present later in life. Importantly, no work exists that integrates the critical component of attention towards emotion. Given the profile of attention that infants in low SES environments are exposed to (overall lessened parental affect, and greater exposure to negative emotions), infant attention may be a critical mediating factor in the atypical pathway of development of children from low SES environments. The current study aims to examine associations between SES and resting EEG activity longitudinally across the first two years of life, and to examine associations among environmental stress related to SES, attention to emotion, and resting EEG activity in infancy. The second portion of the study aims to examine associations among SES, attention to emotion, functional brain development, environmental factors, and both parental and child stress across early childhood. We will utilize eye tracking to identify infants’ attentional patterns to emotional faces, and EEG and ERPs to measure neural resource allocation at rest and in response to emotional faces in infants and children developing in low SES environments. We will collect mothers’ and children’s hair samples to measure chronic stress in the environment, via cortisol levels. We will also collect variables related to environment, including parent report questionnaires, and a detailed in-home evaluation of parental behavior and home life. The proposed studies will focus on the PI’s training in EEG/ERP methods, stress physiology, and longitudinal statistical approaches to compliment and diversify her methodological and theoretical repertoire. The current proposal includes a well-established group of professionals who will assist and facilitate the training of the PI and her development into an independent researcher. The PIs current placement is ideal for the proposed training, given the unparalleled access to a sample of infants developing in a diverse SES environment, and access to premier research and teaching institutions. This additional training is critical for the PI to transition into an independent researcher who will continue to investigate the impact that developing in a low SES environment can have on brain and cognitive development of children. It is imperative to understand how, and how early, poverty and lack of access to resources impacts the way infants develop socially, cognitively, and neurally. Without greater understanding of these topics, we as a field cannot advance to developing targeted and empirically supported interventions for children growing up socioeconomically disadvantaged. These interventions are critical, given the negative attentional and behavioral outcomes of children from low SES environments.

项目摘要/摘要 在低SES环境中发展会对儿童的注意力和中立产生负面影响 发展。只有少数研究调查了这些问题的发展基础， 有一些证据表明基于SES出生时没有神经差异，但存在明显的差异 后来生活。重要的是，没有任何工作将注意力集中在情绪上的关键组成部分。给出 低SES环境中的婴儿暴露于（总体上减少父母的影响）的注意力概况 更大的负面情绪暴露），婴儿的注意可能是非典型途径中的关键介导因子 来自低SES环境的儿童的发展。当前的研究旨在检查 在生命的头两年中，SES和休息的脑电图活动在纵向上进行，并检查 与SES相关的环境压力，对情绪的关注以及婴儿期休息的脑电图活动。第二部分 该研究的目的是检查SES之间的关联，对情绪的关注，功能性脑发育， 环境因素，以及幼儿期的父母和儿童压力。我们将利用眼睛跟踪到 将婴儿的注意力模式识别为情感面孔，脑电图和ERP测量神经元资源 静止分配，并应对在低SES环境中发展的婴儿和儿童的情感面孔。 我们将通过皮质醇收集母亲和儿童的头发样本，以测量环境中的慢性压力 水平。我们还将收集与环境相关的变量，包括家长报告问卷， 详细的家庭行为和家庭生活评估。拟议的研究将重点放在PI的 脑EEG/ERP方法，压力生理学和纵向统计方法的培训，以称赞和 使她的方法论和理论曲目多样化。当前的建议包括一个公认的小组 专业人士将协助和促进对PI及其发展的培训 研究员。鉴于无与伦比的访问 在潜水员环境中发展的婴儿的样本，并获得首要的研究和教学 机构。这种额外的培训对于PI过渡为独立研究人员至关重要 继续研究在低SES环境中发展的影响可能会对大脑和认知能力产生的影响 儿童的发展。必须了解如何以及如何以及如何早期，贫穷和缺乏机会 资源会影响婴儿在社会，认知和神经上发展的方式。没有更多了解 这些主题，作为一个领域，我们无法促进针对性和经验支持的干预措施 在社会经济上成长的儿童处于不利地位。考虑到负面，这些干预措施至关重要 来自低SES环境的儿童的注意力和行为结果。